Sympathetic Imagination and the Concept of Face: Narratives of Blindness in the Long Nineteenth-Century.
| dc.contributor.author | Nagado, Madoka | |
| dc.contributor.department | English | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2019-05-28T19:58:21Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2019-05-28T19:58:21Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2018-08 | |
| dc.description.abstract | This dissertation explores how sympathy conditions blind narratives, and also how Otherness is constituted within them. Arranged in three sections, “Recognizing Blindness,” “Representing Blindness,” and “Retelling Blindness,” I examine the nineteenth-century uses of “sympathy” in the literary representation of blindness. Drawing upon Emmanuel Levinas’ (1906-1995) concept of “face,” I read each narrative as an example of how historically and generically people’s sympathy towards Others has been presented, transmitted, and re-presented. What I call the “sympathetic imagination” represents the point of contact between the understanding of disabilities in the nineteenth century and its relation to Levinas’ ethical encounter with alterity, as I argue that each narrative uses “face” as a trope to represent the extended sympathies and enduring dilemmas provoked by encounters with blindness. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10125/62422 | |
| dc.language | eng | |
| dc.publisher | University of Hawaii at Manoa | |
| dc.title | Sympathetic Imagination and the Concept of Face: Narratives of Blindness in the Long Nineteenth-Century. | |
| dc.type | Thesis | |
| dc.type.dcmi | Text | |
| dcterms.description | Ph.D. Thesis. University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa 2018. |
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